Join Us at Portland State’s Internet Marketing Conference! Discounts Available Till Noon December 4!

Portland State’s Internet Marketing Conference will offer businesses and individuals some of the best information available in digital marketing. The A list of star speakers include Renny Gleeson, Global Director of Interactive Strategies from Wieden+Kennedy, Bryan Rhoads, Intel’s Digital Strategist, KC Distance Learning’s Janet Lee Johnson, and Fight’s Justin Spohn ...and more. See the Conference Schedule to find more about the 25+ speakers and exciting sessions.

If you sign up by noon on Friday, December 4, 2009, you can use our two discount codes! For individuals, the code SMM90 will get you in for $90. For groups of five or more, the code SMMGroup65 will get you in for $65. Don’t miss it!

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SoMe Award Winners: Real Conversation Recap

Thanks to everyone who came out to our event last night!

Special thanks Forkfly for sponsoring and @blazeit for steaming the event live. .  If you weren’t able to attend the event, you can see a copy of the live stream here.

Below are a couple of presentations from last night:

SoMe Award Winners: Real Conversation

Sponsored by Forkfly

Hi Everyone– Our next event is only a couple of weeks away! Since the SoMe Awards were last month, we thought it would only be fitting to

do a follow up with some of the winners to discuss the strategies behind their award-winning projects.

At our May meeting, you’ll get all the behind-the-scenes info from four award winners. They’ll speak to the how, why, and creative of their projects, sharing what it takes to be noteworthy.

Of course, your questions on the objectives, execution, outcomes and metrics about their projects will yield SoMe answers.

Date: Monday, May 18th
Location: Bay 13
701 NW 13th Ave
Agenda: 6-6:30 Networking, 6:30-7:30, Panelists 7:30 Discussion
Moderator: Sam LaRoe of Metal Toad Media

Special thanks to Forkfly for sponsoring this event!

Panelists include:

Jeff Katz
Project lead
Twitalyzer

Hannah Smith,
Embracing the love – Building a Fan Club for Tillamook® Cheese
Conkling, Fiskum & McCormick

Kevin Tate
Founder
StepChange

Martin Stoll
CEO
Twisitor Center
GoSeeTell Network

While this event is free, capacity is limited at Bay 13.  RSVP before Friday, May 15, to guarantee your attendance. We’ll be cutting off RSVPs at 80 people.
For more information, email us at socialmediapdx@gmail.com or tweet to us @SocialMediaclubPDX.

Hope to see you there!

SoMe Awards Recap

Social Media Tweetup. Meet Social Media Insiders on April 16

One of the coolest aspects of living and working in Portland is the close proximity to so many top-notch technology companies like Webtrends who graciously hosted last month’s meeting of the Social Media Club of Portland. Next week we are lucky to benefit from another local company’s presence, this time in the form of a Tweetup. On Thursday, April 16 Intel will host a visit by several “Intel Insiders.” These folks are literally the who’s who in social media and technology and they’ll be in P-town checking out Intel’s tech and touring their fabs and research centers. As a special bonus, they’ll be heading downtown in the evening to join several folks from Social Media Club PDX at The Green Dragon Pub for chit-chat and beer.

Who are these so called Insiders? Well below is a list with links to their respective web properties:

• Sarah Austin from POP17 @pop17
• Irina Slutsky Geek Entertainment @irinaslutsky & producer/videographer Eddie Codel eddie.com @ekai
• ”Somewhat” Frank Gruber Somewhat Frank @frankgruber
• Tom Foremski  Silicon Valley Watcher @tomforemski
• Cathy Brooks – Other Than That @cathybrooks

Sweet, huh? Join your fellow Portland Social Media Peeps on Thursday, April 16 from 7:30 to 8:30 for a Tweetup at the Green Dragon. And if the notoriety of these Insiders isn’t enough to spark your interest, Intel will provide the first round of beers (depending on how many people show up). We hope to see you there!

If you’re looking for more information on the Intel Insiders, here are some related blog posts:

• Intel Forming “The Insiders” Social Media Advisory Team
• Archive of blog posts about Intel Insider activities
• Bios for each Intel Insider

If you’d like more information from someone at Intel, please contact @kenekaplan.

Getting it: Careers in Social Media Slide Presentation

In addition to the slideshare presentation, you can find a podcast over at Lisa Peyton’s  Thoroughly Modern Marketing  (TMMPDX).

More from last nights event…

Once again, special thanks to Widmer for providing the free beer and to WebTends for allowing us to use their space.  (Plus all those free books were courtesy of WebTrends.)

Kelly Feller demystifies careers in social media

Once again PDX does not disappoint!  Thank you to all who were able to come out and spend your time with us at the second Social Media Club PDX event. It was a wonderful event, packed to the brim (I lost count) with people from all different industries looking to learn or share how social media can help businesses. And how there is a business need to fill positions to build a brand presence online and engage/listen to their consumers.

A big thank you to Intel’s diva of social media, Kelly Feller, for presenting. We will be putting up a link to her slideshow once she removes some of the legaleze from the deck.  Follow us on twitter @socialmediapdx for updates.

Until then, you can read Intel’s Social Media Guidelines, which Ms. Feller helped create, or follow her on twitter @kellyrfeller.

One of the attendees, William Hertling, wrote up detailed notes on the talk for those of you who may have missed the event.  Thank you, William.

Webtrends was amazingly gracious to us. The soda and free books, as well as the space were all compliments of Webtrends. Be sure to read on their blog about what they are working on for social media analytics. The beers, lest we forget, were compliments of Widmer Brothers.

And don’t forget to take the small things challenge where intel will donate on your behalf to Kiva and Save the children.

Getting It : Careers in Social Media

Are there really jobs in social media and if so, how do I get one? With all the self-proclaimed social media pundits, experts & gurus out there, it’s easy to wonder if the only jobs in social media are for consultants or agencies trying to help big corporations “get it.” Well Kelly is living proof that some big companies do “get it” and are willing to put their money where their online mouths are by hiring specialists with expertise at “being social online.”

Join Kelly Feller for the second official Social Media Club Portland meeting where she’ll summarize various corporate social media jobs (hers included) & what they actually entail, explore ways to stand out in this increasingly crowded space, and give some hints to agencies & consultants who are helping companies make sense of the growing social media marketing trend.

Kelly Feller, Social Media Strategist at Intel

Date: Tuesday, March 24rd 2009
Location:
Webtrends
851 SW 6th Ave. Suite 1600
Portland, OR 97204
Time: Networking 6-6:30,  Presentation: 6:30-8pm
Cost: Free. Seating is limited.

RSVP on our Upcoming Event page or LinkedIn

Follow @socialmediapdx on twitter.

About Kelly Feller
After having been in “traditional” marketing roles for the last 15 years, Kelly Ripley Feller is now a social media addict and outspoken (read “loud”) proponent of change and marketing evolution. She has marketed everything from organic foods and senior housing to infrared thermometers and computer software & hardware. She’s worked with a variety of big technology companies including Intel, Hewlett Packard, Microsoft, Intuit, SAS Software, Symantec, and IBM and even some smaller companies & non-profits.

Today she is a Social Media Strategist in Intel’s Social Media Center of Excellence where she works on company-wide guidelines & programs that involve social media marketing. In her dwindling spare time she writes & Twitters avidly about technology, social media, marketing, business, politics, and Second Life—where she’s been active for over two years. To prove she isn’t just a geeky chick, Kelly is also an enthusiastic live music lover, Phishead, and classical singer who performs at local schools and senior homes. She holds a BA in Communications and Political Science from the University of Michigan.

Learn more  at Kelly Feller’s blog.

Supported by Widmer Brothers and WebTrends.

Social Media Club PDX Event Recap

Wow. What an amazing turnout for our very first event. We had nearly 100 people crammed into a room that was certainly not meant to hold that many.  It was great to see so many people interested in learning and sharing ideas about social media.  Despite some technical difficulties we experienced, there was some interesting debate and great conversation.

We are in the midst of planning our next event and will let you know as soon as we set a date.  We’re looking at possibly doing more of a round-table format or even inviting people to present their social media case study.  If you have ideas for what you’d like to see at these events, please free free to email us or leave a comment.

Special thanks to Chris Heuer for making the stop in Portland to present, and  The Agency Ultra Sport Lounge for allowing us to use their venue.

(We are also actively seeking sponsors for these events! please email us if you are interested.)

-Erin